Paid Media Manager

Who We Are

We Are Social is a global socially-led creative agency with unrivalled social media expertise. With 1,300 people in 19 offices spanning four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Pepsi, Meta and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date, from breaking into the metaverse to smashing records on TikTok. 

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an adept, passionate and dynamic individual to join our team in London. This role will be dedicated to one of our top global clients and will be responsible for strategic planning and execution of paid social campaigns across platforms and objectives. 

This is a client-facing role that requires data-driven media thinking. The successful candidate will seek to develop a deep understanding of the client’s needs, improve performance and identify opportunities for innovation.

In addition to your key client responsibilities, you will be helping build and grow the paid media offering - by contributing to new business pitches. There will be the unique opportunity to work alongside all teams at We Are Social including the creative & editorial departments, to help shape and develop content for paid activity across multiple social platforms. 

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Proven experience in managing and optimising full-funnel paid social campaigns on Meta and TikTok Business Managers, with a strong understanding of performance levers. Track record of generating fee revenue and leading accounts with a minimum yearly spending of £1 million.
• Experience in managing and optimising campaigns across other platforms, including YouTube/Google, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, and more.
• At least one year of experience using Sprinklr for buying and reporting for paid social campaigns.
• Excellent Excel skills (e.g. formulas, pivot tables), with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Sprinklr expert and have knowledge of Meta Blueprint, Google Ad Certification
• Experience establishing yourself as the go-to person on the account 
• Always takes full accountability for your results/deliverables
• Being solutions-driven and be confident in vocalising them
• Will contribute new ideas and points internally which are then taken forward/adopted

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2023.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recuitment@wearesocial.net

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?